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Eoin (Script error: No such module "IPA".) is a masculine Irish-language given name. The Scottish Gaelic equivalent is Eòin (Script error: No such module "IPA".) and both are closely related to the Welsh Script error: No such module "Lang".. It is also cognate with the Irish Script error: No such module "Lang". and English John. In the Irish language, it is the name used for all Biblical figures known as John in English, including John the Baptist and John the Apostle.
Script error: No such module "Lang". and Script error: No such module "Lang". are different names from Script error: No such module "Lang"./Script error: No such module "Lang".. The Old Irish name Eógan is generally considered to be a derivation of the Greek and Latin name Script error: No such module "Lang"., meaning "noble born".[1][2][3]
Political figures
- Eoin an Ile or John of Islay, Earl of Ross, in the 15th century
- Eoin Ó Broin (born 1972), Irish Sinn Féin politician
- Eoin O'Duffy (1890 — 1944), Irish revolutionary, leader of the Blueshirts.
- Eoin Mac Neill (1867 — 1945), Irish nationalist politician and scholar.
- Eóin Tennyson, Northern Irish politician
Artists
- Eoin Colfer, Irish author of the Artemis Fowl series
- Eoin McNamee, Irish author
- Eoin O'Broin, Irish DJ and producer under the stage name Noisestorm
- Eoin O'Keeffe, Irish composer
- Eoin Scolard, Irish author
- Marcus Eoin Sandison, Scottish musician of the duo Boards of Canada
- Eoin McCarthy, Irish actor
- Eoin Macken, Irish actor
Sportsmen
Gaelic Athletic Association
Gaelic footballers
- Eoin Bradley, a Derry player
- Eoin Brosnan, a three-time All Ireland winning Kerry player
- Eoin Cotter, a Cork player
- Eoin Donnelly, a Fermanagh player
- Eoin Liston, a Kerry Gaelic football legend
- Eoin McHugh (born 1994/5), a Donegal player
Hurlers
- Eoin Cadogan, a Cork hurler and footballer
- Eoin Kelly (Tipperary hurler), an All-Ireland winning Tipperary player
- Eoin Kelly (Waterford hurler), a three-time Munster Championship winning Waterford player
- Eoin Larkin, a seven-time All-Ireland winning Kilkenny hurler
- Eoin McGrath, a three-time Munster championship winning Waterford hurler
- Eoin Murphy, a three-time Munster Championship winning Waterford hurler
- Eoin Quigley, a Wexford hurler and former Bohemians soccer player
Soccer players
- Eoin Doyle, a Cardiff City player
- Eoin Hand, soccer analyst and former manager of the Irish Soccer Team
- Eoin Jess, a former Scottish international and Aberdeen player
- Eoin Reid, a Celtic reserves player
- Eoin Mullen, a Bohemian FC player
Other
- Eoin Collins, a former Irish tennis player
- Eoin Kennedy, an All-Ireland winning handballer
- Eoin Morgan, an Irish cricketer who now represents England
- Eoin Murray, an Irish British Touring Car Championship driver
- Eoin Reddan, an Irish Rugby international
- Eoin Reilly, a junior champion sculler and rower from New Zealand
- Eoin Rheinisch, an Irish canoeist
- Eoin Ó Siochrú, an Irish motorcyclist
- Eoin B. B. Kennelly, an Irish serial killer
Others
- Eoin Cameron, an Australian radio personality
- Eóin Mac Suibhne, fourteenth-century Scottish nobleman
- Eoin McKiernan, an academic in the field of Irish Studies
- Eoin McLove, a fictional character in the sitcom Father Ted
- Eóin Doyle, fictional character from "the JFKs" song of the same name.
See also
- Alternate forms for the name John
- Eoghan
- Eugene (given name)
- Iain
- List of Irish-language given names
- Owen (name)
References
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- ↑ Surnames of the United Kingdom (1912), reprinted for Clearfield Company, INC by Genealogical Publishing Co. INC, Baltimore 1995, 1996. Cormic gives this origin for Eogan (one MS, Eogen); and Zimmer considers Owen to be borrowed from Latin Script error: No such module "Lang"., as noted by MacBain, p. 400. The mediaeval Latinization of Owen as Script error: No such module "Lang". led to a belief that the etymology was the Welsh and Breton Script error: No such module "Lang"., "lamb". With much stronger reason it was at one time considered that the name represented Irish Script error: No such module "Lang". = Gael. Script error: No such module "Lang". [f. Old Irish Script error: No such module "Lang". Welsh Script error: No such module "Lang"., young], ‘youth’. Surnames of the United Kingdom cites Tomás Ua Concheanainn, Script error: No such module "Lang". (p. 126), that "Script error: No such module "Lang". is a diminutive of Script error: No such module "Lang"., = Owain, Eugene"
- ↑ Morgan, T.J. and Morgan, Prys, Welsh Surnames, University of Wales, 1985, Owain (Owen, Bowen, Ednowain). According to T.J. Morgan in Welsh Surnames (page 172/173) Owen is a derivation of the Latin Script error: No such module "Lang". > Old Welsh Script error: No such module "Lang"., Script error: No such module "Lang". ... 'variously written in Middle Welsh as Script error: No such module "Lang".. LL gives the names Script error: No such module "Lang".. The corresponding form in Irish is Script error: No such module "Lang".. Additionally, another Latinized variation of the name Owen is Script error: No such module "Lang". in certain parish registers.”
- ↑ As cited by T.J. Morgan in Welsh Surnames, page 172
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